EmergAnt.:2 Countercultural History

The emerging church has fermented on the fringe of society. Over the past 40 years, and around the world, the alternative counterculture has been the context in which new forms of ministry have been birthed. Today, the movement is less alternative and increasingly mainstream, as a wider strata of young people adopt the new cultures.…

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Software, Sites and Stuff

– Dan Hughes of TheyBlinked blog created a wicked cool social networking software piece called SmartCommons.com. He released it at the beginning of the year. I havent had time to really kick it around yet – but it seems like it has huge potential. HUGE. – Fuse Factory has released their DVD – These guys…

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EmergAnt.:1 Emergent Vocabulary

[Here is the first in a week long series on the understanding the emerging church around the world. Let me know if you think it sucks. You may recognize bits and pieces from my blog-  I am trying to capture it all and aggregate it here.] 1. An Emergent Vocabulary “Emergent” is a popular name…

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The nEthics of Hacking Google

“Google [the almighty search engine] relies mostly on two criteria: The number of sites that link to yours and, to a lesser degree, the content of your page as it relates to the keywords selected. (For example, the number of times the words appear on that page).” Greg Boser, Google hacker A simple formula can…

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Em. Leadership and the Grid Blog [updated]

[UPDATE]: Bob Carlton of The Corner is suggesting a Pentecost Grid Blog “So this Pentecost – how about we set our sights on trying to link at least 120 bloggers encircling the globe in a grid blog to post, cross comment and chat about how what Jurgen Moltmann calls ”the shy member of the Trinity“…

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Save Darfur

From Justin Baeder: “Andrew- I was wondering if you’d be willing to mention SaveDarfur.org’s 100 Hours of Conscience campaign, which starts this Thursday” 100 Voices of Conscience (for Americans) is a good cause.

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EvangeCube: a Tool for Ned Flanders

Its called the EvangeCube and its the cheesiest evangelistic tool in THE ENTIRE WORLD. Beyond cheesy. This is the storytelling tool that Ned Flanders may have inspired. And when its creator Tom Doyle passed a box of EvangeCubes around the room last month in Switzerland, I cringed, and kept on cringing. Then he made us…

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EmergAnt.: A One Week Tour

I am kicking off a one week tour of the emerging church, at least . . how I see the emerging church and how I would describe it to OLDER people who may not understand it. Every day, over the next week, I hope to introduce 10 characteristics of the emerging church, tackle the hairy…

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Mixing Our Wineskins?

Can emerging churches survive traditional top-down systems of governing? What do you think about this? Emergent systems have a self-regulatory, mutual accountability system that enables everyone to participate and keep the system healthy. Which is why no one is insisting that someone organize and govern the internet – better to have the whole system work…

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Getting Things Done (on Mac)

This article was written for me. It will save me $10 on the book, and will hopefully make me more efficient . . . as soon as i have time to sit down and read it. I have to get OTHER things done first. “The central idea is to change your habits so that you…

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bloggers on the march

“These people claim to be the unofficial legislators of free opinion. They quake, rant, muckrake, scream like 17th-century Puritans.” “The whistle-blowers, e-babies, inside-outers, wonkettes, quacks and cranks have globalised Speakers’ Corner.” Bloggers on the March, Simon Jenkins, The Times Skinny: Good article, but yet another journalist seeing the blogosphere through his lens of mass media…

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Remembering Stanley Grenz

Theologian Dr Stanley Grenz died on the weekend in Vancouver, Canada from a “massive blood pressure spike which damaged his brain” (Knightopia) I didn’t really know him well. We met a some conferences, notable the Young Leaders New Edge event in 1998 in New Mexico. Nice guy. I am challeged by the fact that although…

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Storm Over

We were battered by a nasty storm over the weekend. Snow, hail, sleet, gale winds. Last night Miriam’s car went off the road with her in it and she couldn’t get back home. (She’s OK). But the storm is over now, the sun is out and shining on the white snow. And i am back…

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Soularize Remotely . . NOW

The great and worthy conference called Soularize just started. I called up Spencer who runs it, and things are going well – good crowd, good time, and they are just about to crank up the web cams and start sending out the signal around the world so that all of us people outside California (the…

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Hooked on Wolf

Bro. Thom Wolf The man just totally rocks. TOTALLY ROCKS. And he doesn’t have a web site. Nor has he written a book, although others have written about him and lifted his stuff for their own books. I would like to offer this humble fan post as a marker for Bro. Thom, until he gets…

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Bloggers 7 Deadly Sins

Inspired by the Evangelical Blog Awards, I have written out 7 Deadly Sins that ‘evangelical bloggers’ should avoid: 1. Using your blog to pimp your books or yourself as a conference speaker. The words “Click Here and Check Out Our MP3 Shopping Cart” should not be the first words to appear on your blog. 2.…

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Evangelical Blog Awards

The 1st Annual Evangelical Blog Awards were given out recently at Evangelical Underground.com. Steve Knight’s list of potential winners, I thought, was better than the actual winners. Maybe he should be a judge next year???? Runners up for this award included some friends of mine: Messy Christian, Doug Pagitt, (I hate to brag, but i…

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The People Behind Wiki

These geeks impress me. They are the 16,000 contributors of the Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia with 490,000 articles. They are a lot like bloggers, but less selfish . . . and smarter. Wired tells us who they are and why they do it. No 1 Wikipedian: Derek Ramsey, aka Ram-Man “Ramsey created the most active…

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Teaching in Oslo, Norway

Last week was my first time in Oslo. I stayed with Morten Holmvist, Manga enthusiast, theology teacher and pastor of Subchurch – 200 young goth/punk/metal/black-wearing Jesus followers. Great people. (Some of the pictures below are from their website.) I “preached” there on Sunday night – storytelling from the gospel of Luke. Morten said that his…

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Emerging Church document (updated)

UPDATE: Finished it – YEEEAAAAAHHHHH and sent it off. Cant share it with you yet since it is TOP SECRET and for the eyes of REALLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE . . . unlike you . . . but i do hope to share it eventually. ________________________________________ ORIGINAL POST: Busy busy today, getting out my document on…

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